راحة الحلقوم
Arabic
Etymology
Literally, "comfort of the throat", from رَاحَة (rāḥa, “comfort; quietness”) + الْحُلْقُوم (al-ḥulqūm, “the throat”). It is often claimed to be coined in Ottoman Turkish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /raː.ħat al.ħul.quːm/
Noun
رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم • (rāḥat al-ḥulqūm) f
Declension
| singular | singular triptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | — | رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم rāḥat al-ḥulqūm |
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| nominative | — | رَاحَةُ الْحُلْقُومِ rāḥatu l-ḥulqūmi |
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| accusative | — | رَاحَةَ الْحُلْقُومِ rāḥata l-ḥulqūmi |
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| genitive | — | رَاحَةِ الْحُلْقُومِ rāḥati l-ḥulqūmi |
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Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm), راحت لوقوم (rahat lokum) — vulgarism
- Turkish: rahat lokum
- → Romanian: rahatlocum
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: рахат-локум
- Latin script: rahat-lokum
- → Russian: рахат-луку́м (raxat-lukúm)
- → Uzbek: rohat-luqum
- → Persian: راحتالحلقوم (râhat-ol-holqum)
References
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “حلقوم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN